Chapter Two: Everyone Expected It to Soar

“And the trade?” “We trade the data. The voices only tell us where to look.” An online psychiatric consultation found no obvious drug or sleep-induced acute episode and ordered brain imaging. When the call ended, all five stocks groaned together. Their prices were rising. Tang's monitor sounded an alarm. Across different exchanges, tiny buy orders had struck the five companies simultaneously. Their millisecond intervals and final digits assembled the countdown. For the first time, the voices had left an observable fingerprint. Every order carried the same routing tag: PAN-72.